In the coming term, I intend, as your Senator, to focus my work on finding solutions to the long-term structural challenges our state faces. With a growing economy, a $100 million surplus, and an increased rainy-day fund, I believe that we can, and we must, invest in the following efforts. 1. Reduce the high cost […]
Republicans Force Haphazard Fetal Homicide Bill through Legislature
Republicans Force Haphazard Fetal Homicide Bill through Legislature CONCORD –Senator Donna Soucy (D-Manchester), Deputy Democratic Leader in the Senate, released the following comments after Senate Republicans forced passage of SB 66, legislation that establishes a fetal homicide law in New Hampshire, using last minute, improper Senate procedure: “This Republican bill has been plagued with issues […]
WATCH: Sen. Fuller Clark meets with Newmarket Town Council (6/21/17)
Continuing her tour of local governments in the Twenty-first Senate District, Sen. Fuller Clark met with Newmarket’s Town Council on Wednesday of this week. She briefed them on a variety of issues in Concord, chiefly the proposed budget. You can watch her discussion with the Council here. Her remarks begin at about 7:34.
Senate Democrats Statement on Republican Budget Agreement
Senate Democrats Statement on Republican Budget Agreement CONCORD – Today, after House and Senate Republicans signed off on their budget proposal, Senate Democratic Leader Jeff Woodburn (D-Whitefield) released the following comments: “Democrats have made it very clear: we will not support a budget that asks working people to dig further into their wallets while the […]
Senate Democrats Respond to Eleventh Hour Attack on Women’s Health in State Budget
Senate Democrats Respond to Eleventh Hour Attack on Women’s Health in State Budget CONCORD— Senate Democrats released the following statement following a series of late night, surprise amendments introduced by Senate Republicans to codify restrictions to women’s reproductive health in the Senate budget: “It’s a disturbing reality that in 2017, women in the […]
Senate Democrats Statement on Senate Republican Budget
Senate Democrats Statement on Senate Republican Budget CONCORD – Today, the Senate passed their version of the budget on a party line vote of 14-9. After the vote, Senate Democrats released the following comments: “This budget creates an artificial, trumped-up surplus to sell the biggest Republican ruse of all, that slashing taxes for […]
NH Business Review: Senate measure would tie municipal hands on Airbnb rules
Senate measure would tie municipal hands on Airbnb rules Inspections would be made more difficult under last-minute amendment BY BOB SANDERS Published: May 23, 2017 It would be a lot harder for municipalities to inspect vacation and short-term rentals, like Airbnb, under a last-minute amendment attached to House Bill 654, which was approved May 18 […]
WMUR: Lawmakers mull new powers for commissioner to deal with insurance changes
WMUR: “Providing this flexibility to the department is something essential that we need to do in this time of uncertainty and unpredictability.” said Sen. Martha Fuller Clark, D-Portsmouth. Lawmakers mull new powers for commissioner to deal with insurance changes CONCORD, N.H. —As uncertainty clouds the future of the Affordable Care Act, lawmakers in Concord are […]
Portsmouth Herald: Presumptive cancer law for firefighters still sidelined
This is a promise we need to keep. There is always money for priorities we value. Presumptive cancer law for firefighters still sidelined By Max Sullivan msullivan@seacoastonline.com It was a year ago last Monday that 34-year-old Hampton firefighter Kyle Jameson lost his battle to cancer, and it will be five years May 30 since 39-year-old […]
ICYMI – Foster’s “Treating Great Bay, one treatment plant at a time”
DURHAM — Wastewater entering Great Bay will soon be cleaner. Area legislators along with town officials toured the Durham and Newmarket wastewater treatment plants on Friday to review the efforts to reduce nitrogen in the Great Bay Estuary that many believe is the cause for the dwindling eel grass. Jeff Barnum, the Great Bay-Piscataqua waterkeeper […]
WMUR: Fuller Clark on Rep. Fisher – “we suddenly become complicit.”
CONCORD, N.H. — A Laconia legislator who came under heavy criticism at a hearing Tuesday for creating a misogynistic web forum told a House committee reviewing his online activities that he “never hated women” and meant no harm in posts that have been widely viewed as sexist and degrading. “I have never hated women,” Fisher […]